The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-11
THE WORLDS FAIR.
UNPLEASANT EXPERIENCES OF A
PARTY OF SCHOOL TEACHERS.
Southern Courtesy Exhibited in the Street
Cars-The Landscape as Seen from
the Car WindOws-The Ex-
position Grounds.
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non-smoking car, and were finally re-
warded. The cars seat about sixteen pas
sengers each, and this one already had
that number on board. Here the women
had their first experience of that southern
chivaIry of which we are all so proud
The men Immediately vacated their seats.
bowed politely, and crowded cut Of the
way until the women were all seated.
More passengers got on until the car was
packed to its utmost standing capacity.
About two miles out the crowd had
thinned, and travelling became more com
Portable. Here stout colored girl got in,
but southern chivalry draws the line at
negroes Nobody offered her seat. Aft
erwards an old woman with big bundle
apparently a washerwoman-got in
also Southern chivalry seemed to draw
another line at washerwomen- However,
one of the Chicago girls gave her seat to
the old woman, and a tobacco chewing
knight Grant gave his seat to the Chicago
girl, and thus a happy compromise was
effected The view from the cars was
more varied than picturesque. A
long row of white frame houses. all eX-
actly alike-probably constructed by the
same carpenter and painted out of the
same bucket-with green blinds wide
galleries. and wood paliDg IN front OF
the door. Here and there great magnolia
trees, their loads of green leaves shining
with natures yarnish. Then bleak
piece of swamp. with foreground of sew
eral little half-clad negroes and two or
three mauve -colOred, serious looking
goats Then several beer saloons-for
right near there is a street car barn and
some tumbie-down colored lodging
houses Then an orange orchard, so de
ightful to northern eyes. Then pretty
frame houses of airy structure, set in the
midst of well-kept gardens of blooming
flowers and Strengthening, giant-leaved
plants.
Then we pass more pieces of bare
swamp more gardens and orchards, more
saloons, more miserable frame shanties,
until we reach the vicinity of the exposi
ton grounds. Here are a host of for
lorn sideshows, with a big panorama
building for a center-piece. Circular rail
roads, merry gO-rounds, tobaggan slides,
roller coasters, dime museums mermaids,
and monsters and freaks are collected
here from all over the cOuntry-a regular
town of them. Nobody visits them
even the peanut and lemonade stands
have deserted them Their proprietors
seem to have almost given up hope; the
rattle of the tin drum and the blare of the
shoWman's voice grows fainter day by
day. Here is painted clown grimacing
TO crowd of half dozen little negroes,
a melancholy picture. There a little
dwarf stands on a pedestal unheeded,
gazing obviously on the audience at
tracted by his rival, the clown 1t is
questionable if one of the whole host of
shows have yet taken in a cent.
Our car passes a long row of shanty
saloons and restaurants, and finally draws
up at the main entrance to the exposition
grounds The journey of six miles has
occupied an hour and three quarters-all
for five cents If the road had not been
blocked we might have done it in an hour
We pay our fee of 80 cents head and
pass the turnsti!e. Before us is the main
building nearly a quarter of a mile wide.
Flags and bunting float from every point
and corner of its low, irregular roof. The
front is painted a gray or drab color, with
the panelings and projecting woodwork a
reddish brown. On the front of the ele-
vation over the main entrance there is a
statuary group representing the progress
of America. Columbia robed in flowing
gown. in her left hand laurel wreath. in
her right hand wand upon which is af-
fixed the star of empire, stands ma
jesticslly pointing out the path of prog
gress. America, as an Indian maiden
seated on wild buffalo, seems tightening
her saddle girths for the first heat Civ.
iliZation, represented as woman in mod
ern costume, with a sheaf of wheat in one
hand and bouquet of roses in the other,
stands ready to encourage her up the rug
ged path. A North American Indian sits
on an adjacent rock resting his elbow on
his war-club At the time of our arrival
a ladder leaned up against the side of Co
lumbia, on the top of which stood an ar
fist laying on bronze paint with a white
wash brush On each side of the group
and at a lower elevation two tall metal fig |
uFes are placed in inches, but who they |
is still matter of conjecture.
One of them is popularity supposed to be
the Father of His Country, but which one
it is, or who the other one is, we don't |
know.
A hard asphalt walk leads from the en-
trance gate to the building. To the right.
nearly half a mile off. is the government |
building-a long. low structure painted |
green its glass y-lights looking like a
slated roof. To the left, about the same
distance off, is the horticultural hall, its
glass roof shining like an ice palace, with |
3 sweep of giant live oaks forminga back
ground. In the foreground to the left is |
the Mexican iron building, still huge |
skeleton without form or definite out |
line. Looking directly through the frame |
work of the building one can see the spars
81 some vessels lying at the Exposition
wharf Immediately to the left a frame |
building is being erected for an EXPOSE
don restaurant
1t is here the visitors get their first dis !
Instead of the lakes. and |
fountains. and groves delineated in the |
pictures we see only an artificial mud |
bench and few sickly trees and shrubs |
lecently transplanted into the swamp |
Piles of refuse lumber are strewn around |
There is small sheet of water near the |
government building with great stand
pipe in the centre, the fine spray from
which is caught up by the wind and blown
! distance of 500 feet If one ventured |
% go near it he would not only be drenched |
% the skin, but would sink over his ankles
n mud before he had gone ten steps. The
grounds are prosaic-it is better to go
inside
On the Kings Highway.
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